LA KINGS 2023/4 Regular season discussion

Schmooley

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I agree with all of that. If PLD is out, play Fiala on line one with Kopitar and Kempe. Play either Turcotte or Byfield at center. I always assumed Turcotte would slide to wing and Byfield would play center, but the organization has done the exact opposite. I don't really care, I would just love to see Turcotte and Kaliyev get another chance together. They were electric in the WJC with Zegras. See if we can make some magic there.

Fiala - Kopitar - Kempe
Turcotte - Byfield - Kaliyev
Moore - Danault - Laferriere
Fiala is shifty and likes to hold onto the puck like Zegras so a Fiala-Turcotte-Kaliyev line may work stylistically. Problem is Fialas best game came on the Danault line last game so I bet Todd wants to keep that one together for now. So now you run into the mishmash of a 3rd line that ends up caving and Todd starts putting Lizotte as a 3rd line like we saw last game and last season. Lizotte line has been good but its better to have the best 4th line in the league rather than a mediocre 3rd line.
 

johnjm22

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If PLD is out, I'd probably just go with this:

Byfield-Kopitar-Kempe
Fiala-Danault-Kaliyev
Moore-Turcotte-Laferriere/JAD
Grundstrom-Lizotte-Lewis
 
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Kingfan1967

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Byfield - Kopitar - Kempe
Moore - Danault - Laferriere
Fiala - Turcotte - Kaliyev
Grundstrom - Lizotte - Lewis
switch Lewis and Kalivev , Lewis provides some defense for Turcotte and Fiala and 3rd and 4th line mins are pretty similar.
 

GoldenBearHockey

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It happens more than you would think. Every time I hear Howson chat with someone he talks about how he screwed up with drafting Filatov. Neely has openly admitted how much the Bruins screwed up the 2015 draft. Football GM's are probably the most forthcoming and admitting of draft screwups.

Pretty sure Nashville admitted how much they screwed up when they tried to sneak Tolvanen through waivers last year, too.

I respect owning up to your mistakes a lot more than putting spin on it.

Fair enough, I think I was thinking recent, while employed, or while player is in the organization etc.
 

kilowatt

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What will really happen is they'll call Turcotte up and play him 8 min at 4C and move Lizotte up

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bland

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Mulholland Drive is my all-time favorite movie. Saw it for like the 4th or 5th time with my girlfriend at the AMC in Covina on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and just as it ended this girl says out loud "can anyone please explain what the hell I just saw?", so I stood up and said "Yes".

Spent the next hour engaged in a conversation in the lobby with a group of people I had never met, exchanging theories and explanations. It was the most fun I have ever had at the movies.
 

GoldenBearHockey

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Mulholland Drive is my all-time favorite movie. Saw it for like the 4th or 5th time with my girlfriend at the AMC in Covina on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and just as it ended this girl says out loud "can anyone please explain what the hell I just saw?", so I stood up and said "Yes".

Spent the next hour engaged in a conversation in the lobby with a group of people I had never met, exchanging theories and explanations. It was the most fun I have ever had at the movies.

See, that's you..my response would have been....a f***ing movie....

Kinda reminds me beer league, officiating, I called a guy for an obvious 2 hander across the guys wrists, put my hand up, team touches the puck, blow the whistle, assess the penalty, idiot yells out, how the f*** can you call that, so I said like this....and just repeated everything.....had both teams in stitches and the meathead in the box...

No engaging conversation though.....just immediate response to an interesting question.
 
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David Lunch

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Mulholland Drive is my all-time favorite movie. Saw it for like the 4th or 5th time with my girlfriend at the AMC in Covina on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and just as it ended this girl says out loud "can anyone please explain what the hell I just saw?", so I stood up and said "Yes".

Spent the next hour engaged in a conversation in the lobby with a group of people I had never met, exchanging theories and explanations. It was the most fun I have ever had at the movies.
That’s awesome, I feel the same! Not to get all Yanetti, but I rank movies in tiers and MD is at the very top level with a handful or less of others. The tier is just for the movies that gave me an incredible, overwhelming, beautiful and impossible psychological experience. I’ll never forget watching it for the first time. I was a teenager and had heard the name David Lynch but didn’t know anything about his films. I got a copy of Mulholland Drive on dvd and watched it by myself. When the credits rolled, I had never felt so jaw-dropped-to-the-floor, gobsmacked from watching a movie. I couldn’t move from my chair for an extra 30 minutes. It was also the movie I’ve had the most additional insights into upon repeated viewings (another aspect of the top tier). Its Art with a Capital A.
 

johnjm22

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I remember the first time I saw Mulholland Drive also.

The older you get, the harder it is for a movie to really blow you away. You've seen everything. MD was one of those increasingly rare experiences where a movie makes you feel like you just saw something you haven't seen before.

A week or so prior I watched Eastern Promises (Cronenberg) featuring Naomi Watts. I liked her so much that I started looking through her filmography, and that's how I came across Mulholland Drive. It had good reviews, so I'd decided to watch it without really knowing what I was getting into. I hadn't seen anything from Lynch before.

One of my favorite movies ever.
 
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bland

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The only film I have seen since then that had a similar effect was Beau is Afraid. Completely different movie every time you see it.
 
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Frolov 6'3

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Mulholland Drive is my all-time favorite movie. Saw it for like the 4th or 5th time with my girlfriend at the AMC in Covina on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and just as it ended this girl says out loud "can anyone please explain what the hell I just saw?", so I stood up and said "Yes".
Watched it for the first time last weekend.

Never heard of it before.

Good movie and Laura Harring has a great figure.
 

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